Yeshe Lama

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Jigme Lingpa.

Yeshe Lama (T. ye shes bla ma ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མ་). A comprehensive practice manual on the Dzogchen teachings of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, composed by Jigme Lingpa. The teachings and practices taught in this text encompass the innermost cycle of upadesha teachings and clearly define the dzogchen practices of trekcho, cutting through to original purity, and togal, crossing over with spontaneous presence. This text also includes instructions for liberation in the bardo states, and liberation in pure nirmanakaya realms.

Tibetan commentaries

• Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima, The Lamp of Clarity: Notes on the Difficult Points of the Yeshe Lama Instruction Manual (ཁྲིད་ཡིག་ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མའི་དཀའ་གནས་ཟིན་བྲིས་གསལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ།, khrid yig ye shes bla ma'i dka' gnas zin bris gsal ba'i sgron me)
• Adzom Drukpa, rdzogs pa chen po ye shes bla ma'i khrid yig las dang po pa rnams kyi 'jug bde zin bris
• Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མའི་སྤྱི་དོན་སྙིང་ཐིག་མ་བུའི་ལྡེ་མིག་ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་ཊཱི་ཀྐ།, rdzogs pa chen po ye shes bla ma'i spyi don snying thig ma bu'i lde mig kun bzang thugs kyi TI k+ka
• Adzom Gyalse Gyurme Dorje, A Guide to the Yeshe Lama (ye shes bla ma'i zin bris) (this commentary consists of interlinear notes, mostly summarizing the text)
• Khenpo Munsel, (bka' drin can gyis ye shes bla ma gsung skabs kyi zhal gdams rnams zin bris su bgyis pa)

English translations

• Vidyadhara Jigmed Lingpa, Yeshe Lama, translated by Lama Chönam and Sangye Khandro (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2020) more info
• Keith Dowman (translator), The Yeshe Lama: Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Atiyoga Manual (Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014) more info

Further reading

• Sam van Schaik, Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003), pages 311-317.